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Three questions with The Supersuckers’ Eddie Spaghetti



Spencer Patterson

Your Vegas show is being billed as the Beauty Bar’s Punk Rock Winter Formal. Any chance you’ll perform in tuxedo?

I don’t think we brought our suits [laughs], but hopefully the people will be looking nice. I don’t get to don the tux too often ... maybe at somebody’s wedding. I have one suit, so hopefully I never outgrow it.

Next year marks The Supersuckers’ 20th anniversary. Any special plans to mark the occasion?

We’re gonna release a new record and do some big touring on it. I think we might go to Australia; it’s been forever since we’ve been there. I can’t even begin to fathom that [we’ve been going] that long. It doesn’t feel like it at all. I think our hunger for success has kept us goin’, the fact that we’ve never really had any big hit song or any sort of real tangible successful moment keeps us hungry and striving. Not that we’re not successful. We make a living at this, which is crazy to think, that 20 years into it, we can still make a living at it. But we haven’t had that one big moment. We think that we come up with a good one every time, but we’ve been guilty of buying into it in the past and being disappointed, so we don’t really buy into the idea that anything’s gonna work. We just kinda hope in the back of our minds that something special happens with one of our songs one day.

How would you describe the new album?

It’s kind of an odd one for us. I think it sounds, for lack of a better word, more mature. I hate to use that word, ’cause I hate when somebody says that. “It’s our mature record” usually means it’s their sucky record. But it fits a little bit; it’s a little bit more grown-up rock we’re crankin’ out these days, ’cause, you know, we’re grown-ups now.

With The Holy Smokes. December 15, 10 p.m., $15. Beauty Bar, 598-1965.

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